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Thursday, 7 April 2011

Gabriel Orozco

My Hands are my Heart

Ventilator

Atomist Series

Samurai Tree Invariant

Carambole With Pendulum

Chicotes

LA DS

Black Kites

About the exhibition

Creative, playful and inventive, Gabriel Orozco creates art in the streets, his apartment or wherever he is inspired. Born in Mexico but working across the globe, Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects, which he subtly alters.

His sculptures, often made of everyday things that have interested him, reveal new ways of looking at something familiar. A skull with a geometric pattern carefully drawn onto it, a classic Citroën DS car which the artist sliced into thirds, removing the central part to exaggerate its streamlined design, and a scroll filled with numbers cut out of a phone book are just some of his unique sculptures.

Orozco’s photos are also on display, capturing the beauty of fleeting moments: water collecting in a punctured football, tins of cat food arranged on top of watermelons in a supermarket, or condensed breath disappearing from the surface of a piano show Orozco’s eye for simple but surprising and powerful images.

His art also shows his fascination with game-playing, for example a billiard table with no pockets and a pendulum-like hanging ball, or Knights Running Endlessly, an extended chess board filled with an army of horses, both of which are well-known games to which he has added an element of futility. This kind of unexpected twist makes Orozco’s work interesting to both contemporary art lovers and also anyone who wants an unusual and captivating art experience.

What did I think :

Not a lot.

I liked that a group of Oldies had great pleasure playing on the Carambole With Pendulum.

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My painting is both spontaneous and planned, built upon layers of colour and texture made by hundreds of tiny dots. There is a hint of a memory or of something familiar that is open to sensitivity, intuition and the subconscious. It evokes feeling and thoughts that become a journey towards hope and discovery.